Why do people spread computer viruses?

Question

i dont mean trojans and the like that lead to identity theft, i mean viruses that eat up all your memory or render your os inoperable. seriously, whats the point?

Answer 1

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good luck

Answer 2

man! there are also several reasons! for example, an anti-virus company created these viruses for you to buy their product.

but actually, viruses aren't that bad. another example is a computer programmer that sets up a software system for a certain company. if the programmer resigns, he would write his own virus to destroy the system he created so no one could alter it and have a new reason to hire him!!

Answer 3

Computers virus is a software that disable access to certain items in your pc. It can be created by a human or auto-generated by trial version software if your software you are using has expired the access date limits for example. Some are adware to paste or pop-up adverts/reminder to subscribe and make payments on software usage in your computers or occupy your computer memory and harddisk without you knowing it when you do live updates from the background via the internet.

Not all virus/software reminder will actually harm your pc, only disable your website continuity when you did not pay-up the vendor or software development team for example for temporary subscribed shareware website access. As saying goes there is no one in this world who works without money/salary for example

Answer 4

psychological problems maybe

Answer 5

Bragging rights in the Hacker community. They also spread nasties that turn your computer into a "bot" in which the hacker can tell your computer to do dangerous stuff to other people... like create a mass SYC attack or something of the like.

Answer 6

Because they have no lives.

Kinda like some people on Y!A.

Answer 7

The reason some viruses "eat up all your memory" doesn't have to be intentional but it was designed for something else like adware to make money etc.. but in order for it to do so it "eats" up your cpu and ram.

take care.

Answer 8

The people who make them have no lives and wayyyyyy too much time on their hands and probably live in their parent's basement.  

Answer 9

Advertisement, (Also called ad-ware).  Also to get into computer networks, and for fun.  A lot of people just do it for a thrill as well.  

Answer 10

hi brandon, this is a very good question first let me tell you what a virus is someone decides they are going to start a virru so they make a sheet up and send it across the internet or they put it by e-mail which is against the law may i add and some unfortunate gets it in their computer that repeats itself over and over till it fills up the harddrive and then the ram until if that person don't format their harddrive it will destroy that persons computer so they have t replace their tower. now why do people do it? mean and cruel i suppose i have read stories in magazines and they have caught up to the computer user that startted that virus and it is in another country and it is too conveinent that it was someone that used their computer just once and yet they could not tell who it was but that was their story and they were stickin to it even when they recieved their fine for what they did. enteresting story although it cost a lot of people a lot of money to replace their tower that is why in pc magzine they keep warning people to keep their virus protection up to date and know what e-mails they are opening. good luck hope i havbe been helpful to you